Policy dismantling and democratic regression in Brazil under Bolsonaro
Coalition politics, ideas, and underlying discourses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4075161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolina Milhorance (0000-0002-3290-8596, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 752-770 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Policy Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1541-132X • E-ISSN: 1541-1338 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ropr.12502 |
| OpenAlex | W4291954929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 73 |
| References cited | 68 |
Drawing on a cost-benefit approach, policy dismantling literature typically examines case studies following omitted and blame-avoidance strategies, which contrasts with the highly visible dismantling fostered by Bolsonaro's far-right administration in Brazil. This study examines the mechanisms leading to this active process and places it in the context of major policy changes in several fields (i.e., rural development, land titling, social protection, environment, and protection of indigenous peoples). It shows that dismantling decisions were made incrementally by conservative coalitions that seized upon the economic crisis to consolidate a neoliberal turn; however, this turn was radicalized with the expansion of the conservative alliance and tied together by populist rhetoric. This study sheds light on the politics of policy dismantling and addresses it as a process of democratic backsliding
Alliance · Blame · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Economics · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · International Development and Aid · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology
Resiliência da ação pública democrática em tempos de crise
A degradação da Amazônia e a dimensão ambiental da crise da democracia no Brasil
Bureaucratic Resistance in Times of Democratic Backsliding
Public Administration and the Illiberal Challenge
State‐Level Politics in Forest Governance
Environmental dismantling in Brazil
Desmonte ambiental no Brasil
Precarious Settlement Upgrading and Racial Capitalism
Capital and Control
Climate Risks and Neodevelopmental Autopoiesis in the Amazon
Riscos Climáticos e Autopoiese Neodesenvolvimentista na Amazônia
Do Policy Capacities Matter for Federal Policy Design? Evidence From the Implementation of Three Social Policies in Brazil
Science attacks in context of democratic backsliding
Public Administration Under Populist Rule
Expanding the frontiers of climate action research in Latin America
Expandindo as fronteiras da pesquisa em ação climática na América Latina
When the Regulatory State Meets Populism
Brazil’s legal and policy framework for combating Amazon deforestation
Democratic resilience and re-democratisation
Populist Leadership and Environmental Policy Stringency
A new architecture of solidarity
The agency of (public) agencies
A Wounded Democracy
A produção científica em Nutrição na Revista Ciência & Saúde Coletiva (2020-2024)
Scientific production in Nutrition in the Journal Ciência & Saúde Coletiva (2020-2024)
The Procedural Politicking Tug of War
Democratic backsliding and the challenges for public administration scholarship
Intersectorality in a conditional cash transfer programme
Quantifying timber illegality risk in the Brazilian forest frontier
Far‐Right Illiberalism in the European Parliament
The Political Ecology of Climate Remedies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Narratives, evidence and public policy in crisis situations
Moving beyond pesticides
Integrating human rights in the sustainability governance of global supply chains
When bargaining is and is not possible
What happens after policies end? Effects of policy termination and dismantling on target populations, organizations, policy mixes, and political behavior
Greenlash’ and reactionary stakeholders in environmental governance
Transition to sustainability
The Unexpected Actor? Civil‐Military Relations and Regulatory Agency Control in Brazil
Shallow fixes and deep reasonings
Dispossessions in Bolsonaro’s Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic
Sovereignty, Discipline, Governmentality, and Pastorate
The Organizational Dynamics of Bureaucratic Resistance to Undemocratic Pressures
Democratic backsliding in Honduras and Maccih’s effects (2016–2021)
A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding
Eroding democracy and public administration capacities through overstretching the armed forces
Resisting the tide
Bureaucrats’ willingness to resist democratic backsliding
Presidents and diplomacy
Toxic turn in Brazilian agriculture? The political economy of pesticide legalisation in post-2016 Brazil
A decolonial approach to Brazilian environmental policy since 1972
The Political Economic Sources of Policy Non-design, Policy Accumulation, and Decay in Policy Capacity
One Single Agriculture”
The Guardian State
Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling
Beyond dismantling
Administrative responses to democratic backsliding
Safeguarding democracy from the outside in
Compensatory collaborative governance
Threats, victims, or heroes? Media frames about migration in the United Kingdom and Brazil
Developmental channels
Foreign Agents? Public Attitudes Toward Nongovernmental Organizations in a Backsliding Democracy
How do populist discourses influence policy termination
(Mis)Led by an Outsider
Bureaucratic militarization as a mode of democratic backsliding
Policy Dismantling and Resilience
Open Government? Democracy and Transparency Backsliding in Latin America’s Populist Governments
Anti-Science Populism Versus Brazil's Covid-19 Vaccination Program
The illiberal transformation of government bureaucracies
A resposta da burocracia ao contexto de retrocesso democrático
Political Control and Bureaucratic Resistance
Desmonte De Políticas Públicas No Governo Bolsonaro
Desmonte E Resposta Ao Desmonte
The Advocacy Coalition Framework
Dismantling Public Policy
Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration
From Dismantling by Default to Arena Shifting? Child Benefits Policy in Spain
Dismantling the Welfare State?
Les politiques publiques
Mudança de larga escala na política ambiental
Territories Under Siege
O que será do Brasil e do SUS
Implicações da pandemia Covid-19 para a segurança alimentar e nutricional no Brasil
Democratic Backsliding, Populism, and Public Administration
The Dismantling of Family Farming Policies in Brazil and Argentina
Procedural Policy Tools and the Temporal Dimensions of Policy Design
The evolution of Wisconsin's woody biofuel policy
Brazilian climate politics 2005–2012
Designing policy robustness
Inter-sectoral determinants of forest policy
Understanding Policy Change as an Epistemological and Theoretical Problem
A Conceptual Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Policy Change
Brazil
How Social Media Affords Populist Politics
Actions against sustainability
Brazilian policy and agribusiness damage the Amazon rainforest
Dismantling, disintegration or continuing stealthy integration in European Union environmental policy
Policy dismantling at EU level
Neglected Faces of Europeanization
Resilience and robustness in policy design
Narrative Disputes over Family-Farming Public Policies in Brazil
Does the European Union have a reverse gear? Policy dismantling in a hyperconsensual polity
Is populism a challenge to European energy and climate policy? Empirical evidence across varieties of populism
Still an entrepreneur? The changing role of the European Commission in EU environmental policy-making
Simultaneous Policy Expansion and Reduction? Tracing Dismantling in the Context of Experimentalist Governance in European Union Environmental Policy
Paradoxes of privatization and deregulation
Policy Dismantling
EU environmental policy in times of crisis
Many faces of dismantling
What unites the voter bases of populist parties? Comparing the electorates of 15 populist parties
Desregulação ambiental e disputas políticas
Conservative Wave, Religion and the Secular State in Post-impeachment Brazil
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the performance of street level bureaucrats in Brazil
Do Programa Um Milhão de Cisternas ao Água para Todos
Far-right populism and foreign policy identity
The political economy of land struggle in Brazil under Workers' Party governments
Populism from above and below
| Unique citing works | 73 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 18,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 71 |